Cultural Anthropology

The course is designed to provide students with an introduction to the general notion of cultural dimension on one hand and cultural specificities on the other, the latter meaning the particular human ideas and behaviours as reflected in their practical historical and social manifestations.
Thanks to the acquisition of methods based mainly on observations and direct contacts with people (ethnography), students become skilled in understanding the general mechanisms underlying cultural processes and how cultures and identities are formed and come to differ from one another. They also learn to identify differences and similarities between human communities.

By the end of the course, students will be able to define and put into practice the most suitable strategies to facilitate a better understanding, and thus an enhancement, of the various cultural identities that co-exists within complex contexts characterised by a close and potentially hostile contact between different world-views, lifestyles, sustainability models and religious archetypes.